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射电天文天线的初级波束效应-- II。MeerKAT L波段波束的建模

Primary beam effects of radio astronomy antennas -- II. Modelling the MeerKAT L-band beam

K. M. B. Asad, J. N. Girard, M. de Villers, T. Ansah-Narh, K. Iheanetu, O. Smirnov, M. G. Santos, R. Lehmensiek, J. Jonas, D. I. L. de Villiers, K. Thorat, B. H… 展开作者

K. M. B. Asad, J. N. Girard, M. de Villers, T. Ansah-Narh, K. Iheanetu, O. Smirnov, M. G. Santos, R. Lehmensiek, J. Jonas, D. I. L. de Villiers, K. Thorat, B. Hugo, S. Makhathini, G. I. G. Jozsa, S. K. Sirothia

摘要:

经过十年的设计和建造,南非的SKA-MID前体MeerKAT已经开始其科学运作。为了充分利用阵列的宽场能力,我们必须有一个准确的模型,其天线的主波束。我们已经采取了可用的L波段全极化“天文全息”的三个天线和一个通用的电磁模拟观测,并创建稀疏表示的光束使用主成分和泽尔尼克多项式。空间系数的频谱行为已经使用离散余弦变换建模。我们已经提供了基于Zernike的模型,在相关的软件工具(EIDOS)中,可以在方向相关的校准和成像中有用的三个天线的波束上平均的直径为10度。该模型对于梁琼斯矩阵的对角元素和较低频率更准确。随着我们在未来获得更精确的光束测量和模拟,特别是对于交叉偏振模式,我们的管道可以用于创建MeerKAT光束的更精确的稀疏表示。

英文摘要:

After a decade of design and construction, South Africa's SKA-MID precursor MeerKAT has begun its science operations. To make full use of the widefield capability of the array, it is imperative that we have an accurate model of the primary beam of its antennas. We have taken available L-band full-polarization 'astro-holographic' observations of three antennas and a generic electromagnetic simulation and created sparse representations of the beams using principal components and Zernike polynomials. The spectral behaviour of the spatial coefficients has been modelled using discrete cosine transform. We have provided the Zernike-based model over a diameter of 10 deg averaged over the beams of three antennas in an associated software tool (EIDOS) that can be useful in direction-dependent calibration and imaging. The model is more accurate for the diagonal elements of the beam Jones matrix and at lower frequencies. As we get more accurate beam measurements and simulations in the future, especially for the cross-polarization patterns, our pipeline can be used to create more accurate sparse representations of MeerKAT beams.

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